This glossary helps explain the terms used in PALESTINE REMIX. Use these words to build your own story about Palestine.

 

ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

The imprisonment of Palestinians by Israel without charge or trial

BORDERS

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Israel has never defined its borders

BYPASS ROAD

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Israel’s discriminatory road system in the occupied West Bank

CLOSURE

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Arbitrary Israeli closures of towns and villages in the occupied West Bank

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Banned by the Fourth Geneva Convention and routinely used by Israel against the Palestinians

ETHNIC CLEANSING

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Israel’s strategy during the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, which drove 850,000 Palestinian Arabs out of their homes. Today Israel continues to commit ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians

GREEN LINE

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

A temporary line that, in 1949, formed the de facto border between Israel and what was left of historic Palestine

INTIFADA

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

The Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation

OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

The largest and longest lasting occupation of modern time

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

The Palestinian body governing parts of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip

PLO

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Founded in 1964 to create an independent Palestinian State

REFUGEE

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

The plight of Palestinian refugees represents the longest, unresolved refugee problem in the world

SETTLEMENT

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Israel's building of settlements in occupied territories is illegal under international law

SEPARATION WALL

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Since 2002, Israel has been constructing a wall over 700 kilometres long, annexing Palestinian land inside the occupied West Bank

ZIONISM

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

A colonial movement calling on Jews to establish a national state in historic Palestine by any means

Main Source: PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem